Bombast — Defs

01 n. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.

1.
Originally, cotton, or cotton wool.[Obs.]
“A candle with a wick of bombast.” — Lupton.
2.
Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding.[Obs.]
“How now, my sweet creature of bombast!” — Shak.

“Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least.” — Stubbes.
3.
Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian.
“Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid.” — Dryden.

02 a. High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.

1.
High-sounding; inflated; big without meaning; magniloquent; bombastic.
“[He] evades them with a bombast circumstance, Horribly stuffed with epithets of war.” — Shak.

“Nor a tall metaphor in bombast way.” — Cowley.

03 v. t. To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.

1.
To swell or fill out; to pad; to inflate.[Obs.]
“Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed.” — Drayton.